Twinkle Khanna Opens About Facing Harassment At Work In Her New Article

Twinkle Khanna, in her latest article, has shared something which many people would have not imagined would happen to the daughter of a superstar and the wife of a blockbuster action star. The former actress turned author has shared an incident which had taken place during her time as an actor where she was harassed by someone with whom she was working at the particular period.

Read a short excerpt from her article.

A few years ago, a message on my phone reduced me to tears in the car. I had reached breaking point after months of suggestive messages from a wealthy, powerful client that I had been pretending not to understand because all I wanted to do was to complete the project in a professional manner. And so I ended up as a statistic — the 38% of women who faced sexual harassment at work, according to a survey done by the Indian National Bar association.

I am a fairly assertive woman, and married to a man who onscreen punches holes in walls with his bare fists and yet I haven’t been spared, so I shudder to think about what happens to the vast majority of working women.